Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta is quickly mastering the subtleties of being a maybe candidate. And he's got a lot of folks to look to for help. Barletta, the rising star in the state GOP who turned small-city Hazleton into the epicenter of the anti-immigration fight, has sounded a lot like Newt Gingrich lately when talking about his future political prospects.

Gingrich, the former House speaker, has been off and on for months when discussing his possible presidential candidacy. One minute, it sounds definite, the other, he's hardly giving it a thought.

Taking a page from that book, Barletta told me Friday that running for one of several offices -- including Congress and state treasurer -- "are all still options that one would look at."

One? How about you, Lou?

"All of those options I believe are still out there," he said.

There? Where?

The Friday comments come just weeks after Barletta told me he was giving a run for Congress "serious consideration," and then followed up the next day with an interview with the Hazleton Standard-Speaker and said of a congressional run: "I'm not really thinking much about it."

It? What?

The next day, after I called to see if I had misinterpreted his remarks to me, he reassured me that I was not off-base.

"I don’t think about it a lot which doesn’t mean I don’t think about it," he said. "I’ll give it serious consideration, but it is not something I’m dwelling on."

It was the Gengis Khan administration. He murdered one or two.
Legal and illegal third-world immigrants have slaughtered a few themselves.

Where is the 'human-life-is-sacred-crowd' when it's not blowing up clinics or terrorizing patients?

Answer: Shopping and gossiping.

Posted By: Why-Why Wicki | Aug 1, 2007 12:41:22 AM

It's the Demons' turn to "win."
Rudi will have the honor of losing to Hillary.

even though this writer is personally pro-private decision on abortion and pro-gay rights (civil unions with equal benefits to marriage), it is seen that Rudi The Dewwdy, the faux anti-terrorist hero, is the most noxious of all the blowhards.